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Get the Help You Need! ¡Obtenga la Ayuda Que Necesita!!!

PR for People Team
February 16, 2025

There are things you can do to stay safe. Hay cosas que se puede hacer para estar seguro. Know Your Rights! If you are approached by ICE at home, at work, at school, on the street, or anywhere. Conozca sus Derechos! Si ICE se le acerca a su  casa, al trabajo, a la escuela, en la calle o a cualquier sitio, puede usted decir.

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UKRAINE DEFENSE SUPPORT: SAVING UKRAINIAN LIVES

Carl Larson
May 05, 2024

In June 2022, I found myself perched precariously on the second-story roof of an abandoned house in the far east of Ukraine, listening to Russian mortar rounds impact closer and closer. As I risked a broken neck or worse trying to get mobile service, I caught myself laughing at the surreal, impossible nature of where I was. I could be back in Seattle with my beautiful wife, working at my comfortable IT job, building my even more comfortable future. Instead, here I was, 10 meters up in the air in far northeastern Ukraine...

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St. Mary’s Church: For Whom the Bell Tolls

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Patricia Vaccarino
April 05, 2024

St. Mary’s Church (The Church of the Immaculate Conception) is the oldest Roman Catholic parish in the city of Yonkers. More than an ordinary church, St. Mary’s is often called the "Cathedral of the Hudson River Valley." And for good reason. Humble but elegant, the church is larger and grander than any other Catholic church in Yonkers. But right now the church is under wraps and slated to close its door on July 1, 2024. 

 

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Gowns for Grads

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Barbara McMichael
September 04, 2023

The costs of graduation, caps, gowns, regalia, keepsakes, and photos, has become too prohibitive for some students. Gowns for Grads has stepped in to help students by removing barriers to celebrating academic success!

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What Do You Go By?

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Patricia Vaccarino
July 14, 2023

Many of us have walked along the street and have had to step around a prone body. We have no way of knowing if the person is alive or dead. Some of us look away. Others cannot look away. We care and want to help, but we don’t know what to do. The volunteers who participate in the outreach group called Sacred Encounters know what to do. Sacred Encounters serves those who are experiencing homelessness. Their mission ascribes to an act of faith: everyone deserves to be loved, even the most unlovable among us. 

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